The much much much too early 2024 expectations thread.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

4 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

I really like that we have some good excuses in case we under-perform. 

Excuses don’t work. 

[John from Riverside]

I saw a podcast yesterday made by a Jets fan talking about yesterday‘s blood leading and how it is giving them the window to winning the AFC East
 

We cannot allow that to happen

[Buffalo_Stampede]

9 minutes ago, GoBills808 said:

I think they've kind of hit their ceiling

 

Divisional Rd exit or earlier

Not really. Their ceiling is Super Bowl champion. 

[GoBills808]

12 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Not really. Their ceiling is Super Bowl champion. 

No that's a different house

[Shaw66]

14 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Not really. Their ceiling is Super Bowl champion. 

I think that's the correct ceiling.  They have been a preseason favorite to go deep in the playoffs for few years now, and nothing that's happened should change that.  Josh, Diggs, Kincaid, and pretty much the whole offensive line is back.  Defense has to replace a safety, a corner, and reshuffle the D line, with the best dlinemen, other than Jones, coming back. And Milano is coming back.  There's no reason that we should expect the defense to be worse.  

 

Ceiling is high.  Everyone has a lot of work to do. 

[Gunsgoodtime]

Only on TBD can the Bills lose Hyde, Poyer, White, Morse, Neal, Harty, Sherfield, trade Bates, lose Araiza to the Chiefs and sign Hack, Rapp, and Trubisky and be better than they was with no current replacements or money🤣🤣🤣.  Btw other teams have draft picks too, and most of them have way more cap space including the Chiefs.

 

I'm pretty sure everyone except Bills fans see this as quite the set back, but carry on daydreaming 

Edited March 8 by Gunsgoodtime

[Chaos]

45 minutes ago, Peter said:

McD told everyone we are winning the Super Bowl. Didn't he say it is not a question of if but when?

"When" includes forever.  This is a fairly clever expectation setting question.  Literally impossible to fall short of, unless the NFL or Bills go out of business before forever. 

17 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

pretty much the whole offensive line is back

Center and guard positions are both changing. I though McGovern was a good guard. But he is not a known factor at Center.  By the way I agree  with cutting Morse. 

[DapperCam]

Bills minimum should be to make the playoffs. The goal should be to win the division. Anything else is gravy. It’s a retool type of year, when some young guys might be learning on the job.

[uticaclub]

AFC East Division Champions and a Division Round exit.

 

 

Edited March 8 by uticaclub

[Ethan in Cleveland]

I'm sorry to be a broken record. We have a top 3 QB. If you expect anything less than the SuperBowl I really don't understand you.

Please anyone that votes anything but SuperBowl win explain?

 

[PonyBoy]

It's about injuries, how many, to who and timing of them during the season.

If the Bills could get plucky one season with limited injuries to starting players, the talent they've had or may have this year. They're in business. Superbowl appearance a minimum. 🤞

[uticaclub]

1 minute ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

I'm sorry to be a broken record. We have a top 3 QB. If you expect anything less than the SuperBowl I really don't understand you.

Please anyone that votes anything but SuperBowl win explain?

 

I want to make a millions this year, but I expect to make much less. While I don't disagree with any of the moves they have made this offseason, I have no reason to billieve McDermott will coach a team to a Super Bowl.

[NoSaint]

2 hours ago, Chaos said:

My personal opinion is that all sports franchise gms and coaches spend a considerable amount of effort to manage expectations. Thier key to personal success is not winning championships, the key to success is beating expectations.  The lower one can set the expecations, the more likely one is to succeed. 

 

Another personal opinion is that the Bills organization is masterful at managing expectations.  One pillar of that strategy is "we were so awful in the past, that any appearance of competence oughta be satisfactory to the fans in the cheap seat". 

Fans love activity in the offseason. We have been treated to a lot of activity this week.   
 

The consensus opinion about every decision seems to be "this is great" and "this had to be done".   
So I polling at this point, what does it all mean for 2024?

I think we are going to be better than a wild card loser but not likely a Super Bowl team

 

injury or dumb luck of how a ball bounces could effect that but generally top 8 but not top 2

[papazoid]

11-6  and win division by tiebreaker...lol

 

play in the AFC Championship game

 

after that, my crystal ball gets cloudy

[90sBills]

9 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

I'm sorry to be a broken record. We have a top 3 QB. If you expect anything less than the SuperBowl I really don't understand you.

Please anyone that votes anything but SuperBowl win explain?

 

Based on their history winning the superbowl is a goal not an expectation. 

[Chaos]

14 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

I'm sorry to be a broken record. We have a top 3 QB. If you expect anything less than the SuperBowl I really don't understand you.

Please anyone that votes anything but SuperBowl win explain?

 

I think you are  confusing with "what i will consider successful" with "what I actually expect"

[Ethan in Cleveland]

14 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

I want to make a millions this year, but I expect to make much less. While I don't disagree with any of the moves they have made this offseason, I have no reason to billieve McDermott will coach a team to a Super Bowl.

Do you have the talent to make millions? 

Allen has the talent to win the SuperBowl!

Agree he will have to overcome McDermott though

[90sBills]

50 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

I think that's the correct ceiling.  They have been a preseason favorite to go deep in the playoffs for few years now, and nothing that's happened should change that.

Either the team has vastly underperformed or the media don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m leaning towards the latter. 

[SoonerBillsFan]

2 hours ago, Chaos said:

My personal opinion is that all sports franchise gms and coaches spend a considerable amount of effort to manage expectations. Thier key to personal success is not winning championships, the key to success is beating expectations.  The lower one can set the expecations, the more likely one is to succeed. 

 

Another personal opinion is that the Bills organization is masterful at managing expectations.  One pillar of that strategy is "we were so awful in the past, that any appearance of competence oughta be satisfactory to the fans in the cheap seat". 

Fans love activity in the offseason. We have been treated to a lot of activity this week.   
 

The consensus opinion about every decision seems to be "this is great" and "this had to be done".   
So I polling at this point, what does it all mean for 2024?

Superbowl

[Ethan in Cleveland]

5 minutes ago, 90sBills said:

Based on their history winning the superbowl is a goal not an expectation. 

So per this thinking then losing in the playoffs is somehow acceptable?

When does it become unacceptable?